WikiVet – a new model for sharing Open Educational Resources Nick Short, E-media Unit, Royal Veterinary College, University of London Gillian Brown, Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine, Newcastle University earning in health conference, Birmingham, 28 th June 2011
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WikiVet – a new model for sharing Open Educational Resources
Nick Short, E-media Unit, Royal Veterinary College, University of LondonGillian Brown, Subject Centre for Medicine, Dentistry & Veterinary Medicine, Newcastle University
eLearning in health conference, Birmingham, 28th June 2011
Outline
• What’s the problem?• What is OER? • Projects, policies, risk, tools to help you• Creative Commons licences• WikiVet Project• Opening Veterinary Access to Literature• How can we make OERs more accessible?
What’s the problem?
• Creation of learning materials/resources for VLE
• Students downloading resources to their devices
• Students uploading to…
• “…but they were intended for my own university only!”
What is OER?• Open educational resources
• resources created with an ‘open’ licence to reuse and repurpose in accordance with the licence.
• Best practice • created using openly licenced material already available on the
internet – you just need to know where to look
• Guidelines• creating materials within the law and your own institutional
policies and practice
What is OER?• Open Educational Resources Programme
• Managed by the:• Higher Education Academy
www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/teachingandlearning/oer/ • Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
www.jisc.ac.uk/oer • £5.7+£4=£9.7M • OER3 (due soon) = approx. £4M over 1 year
Benefits of OER• Use of public funds/money, cost savings, collaboration• Transparency and accountability• Legally defensible• Advantages for student recruitment, learning, satisfaction and
retention• Equality of access, helping the developing world• Students are using OER and it does save time:
OER and MEDEV projects• OOER – produced best practice risk assessment toolkit• PORSCHE• ACTOR• www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer
• OVAL in collaboration with WIKIVET
Toolkit
http://www.medev.ac.uk/ourwork/oer/toolkits/
Creative Commons
“Copyright was created long before the emergence of the Internet, and can make it hard to legally perform actions we take for granted on the network: copy, paste, edit source, and post to the Web.”
• A licence is simply a legal statement saying what you can and cannot do with the copyright work
• Creative Commons provides some well-recognised licencing schemes to suit you and your work:
• Attribute• Share alike• No derivatives• Non-commercial
Found in | Journal of an Open Source Original comic by | Nerdson(Under CC-BY License)
WikiVet and Veterinary OERs• Recent history• Collaboration• Target audiences• Creation and publishing• International relevance• Web 2.0 integration• Commercial partnerships
History
CLIVE WIKIVET• Started in 1993• UK veterinary schools• CD ROM based• Government funding• Static content• Enthusiast driven
• Started 2007 –• International Vet Schools• Wiki Based• Mixed Funding • Web content• Student and graduate
authored
Collaboration
Target Audiences• Veterinary students• Veterinary graduates• Veterinary nurses• General public
Creation and Publishing• Student and new graduate driven• All content is OER compliant• Integration of learning objects• Use of categories and search• Mixed media• Language and international relevance
International Relevance• Over 200 veterinary schools involved• Sharing content with international
partners• Working through student organisations• Initiatives in the developing world• Translation and contextual adaption
Web 2.0 Tools• Integration with You Tube• Regular Twitter updates• Integration with Wikipedia• Links to YouTube videos• Elgg discussion boards
Commercial Partnerships• Multiple donor sources• Big pharma involvement• Working with publishing houses• Advertising revenue• Business model for sustainability• International competitors
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